Bruno Barbier is a contemporary artist, whose sculpture and
(LandArt) installations are essentially minimalist. His work is often about the
excavation of form within form, stripped back through reduction and
simplification, reacting to the undulations, frequencies, forces and
movements of the natural world.

Using sometimes geometric symmetry, repetition, polarity, the four natural elements (particularly water),
his work attempts to encompass the idea of art pulsing with its
surrounding environment. This is a process where bare essential form
and spacial surface gives heightened clarity rather than mere visual
simplicity and embraces the rhythms of the works' living and elemental
surroundings.

His sculpture and natural environment installation works suggest metaphysical
transcendence i.e. coming from the invisible and settling into the
physical. In many cases form and material are broken down into primary
composite-like layers, stratas of hidden (magnetic) forces having an
influence on what we see, or think we observe.

His sculpture harnesses the reality that invisible natural
forces exist all around. Physical matter, in sculptural terms, can also
be receptive to these frequencies if challenged to do so, therefore,
becoming aligned to the millions of natural particles of our
micro/macro cosmos. Examples of this are found in his work where the
use of iron filings are being drawn or controlled by hidden magnets.
The resulting magnetic flux captured by filing particles dictate and
control movement and form. In this way we can see polarity forces at
work, showing us what predominates much of our world and how much this
could impact on choice and ultimately destiny.

Outcome as a transient moving thing, is an important factor in
his work and his recent research looking at (genetic) blueprinting,
organic coding and dermato- glyphic reading has become a very important
tool in expressing issues of identity and questions about who we think
we are. Place and time, in his work, reassure us of our own existence
and the works go some way in suggesting that outer forces play a
part in what governs and shapes form and even perhaps the way we think. The
bridges between fate and outcome, polarity as in plus and minus,
visible and invisible, may seem wide but in such works, seem stronger than ever.